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PAGE TWO THE TWIG October 26, 1935 T^f) Pul/Usticd Biweekly as the Offlcial Organ of the Student Body of Meredith OoUege Paulisb Pebiiy Editor Kathebinic SiitTFORD AssooUite Editor MAnv Fort Cahroll business Manager Maatha MEasBrfOBR Managing Editor FsAiTCES PiTTMAF.. Managing Editor Marv Johnson MaoMh.i.am Managing Editor Isabel Ross Assistant Busineaa Manager Kate Milt,3 Suiter lAffsistoni Business Manager EwzABBTn Buixabd Typist Catheuinb J0H^^^0rr Typist Het^en Hilmabd Art Editor Reporters KaTF! COVISGTOS CHAKLOrra 'WCH'fEK Ethel Knott Liuian Pob Adelaide Harbis Mary Banks Grace Bettb Eli.a Frances Tatum Entered as second-class tnat(er October 11, 1923. at Postoffice at Raleigh, N. C., under Act of March-3, 1879. Acceptance for malllag at special rate of postage provided tor in Section 1103, Act of October 3, 1917. authorized October 11. 1923. 9tt6«crip«on Price... |1.50 BEING YOUNG Anywhere in the world today being young is difl’crcnt. In this changing world youth is faced witli difficulties unknown to former generations. In an ai'ticle which appeared in Hearsfs Interna- tional-CosmopoUtan eight writers state the international youth situation. In England young people have lost their flexibility in society. Out of the hard times is growing an intelligent youth; “for by tiieir discussion of politics and economics they are laying such a mental foundation as no generation ever made for itself before.” Young men and women in Italy have struggle and duty to which they may look forward. Politically, young Italians are mere pup pets following tlie dictates of II Duce. They have not asked them selves the question: “AVhat arc the forces favorable to life and what are the forces inimical to it?” Today the papers and mag azines are filled with accounts of the Italian-Ethiopian war. Hun dreds of young men are following Mussolini into the firing line. Russian youths have gro^vn up under harsh conditions and cramped ideas. They are verj' conservative and have not the “slightest talent for fri^'olity.” The battleground claims the Iieart and mind of the youth of Russia. In China young men have had more freedom than in other countries, because the individual need lias been considered. With the young women» however, it is different. Youth in China has grown up in a pattern. It is waging a fierce rebellion against the old family system, but it is difHcult for youth to break away from its former bondage completely. There is too, says Pearl Buck, a great deal of security for the Chinese young people >vhich is to be envied. “We, the young generation, believe in our mission. We have faith in our destiny. We see ourselves as the instrument of a Supremo Will.” This is the philosophy of young Germans. Hit ler I’ules the mind of German youth, who is “alive, active, ajid enthusiastic” for its cause. However, German youths refuse to recognize the fact of the depressing ctmdition in Germany today. In France there is no definitely organized “youth movement.” There is, hoM'ever, a mo'cment which is powerful in its effects. Its most obvious manifestations are a liking for sport, for social freedom, the building of physique and a new international point of view. Tiic French 3'outh is a realist, and he recognizes the danger threatening Europe. By nature tlie French are peace- loving, but the 3^outh of todaj’^ has adopted a slogan of pre paredness. “The youth of Jdpan contains many diversities of belief and outlook.” Young Japanese are following a cause that leads them to die willingly for the Emperor. They are fighting material conditions, and are like a “smoldering volcano” that may blow the Empire to pieces. Youth in Italy, Germany, Japan, China, and Russia is fighting for a Cause. The youth of America is “looking for a bandwagon of some sort to climb onto.” We are searching for a Cause, and will support one with groat enthusiasm when one turns up. American youth has faith that everything has not already been done and that all the ideas have not been thought of by others. Shall wo as American youths hold fast our faith? If wo lose that, we have lost allv We have an opportunity that other 3'ouths are denied, and we must take advantage of it if we would succeed. “The Idea of Conflict in IVIodern Drama” Topic Dobree’s Lecture (Continued from page one) as well as the consequences. He illus trated ills point from Antony and Cleopatra and from Hamlet. It Is not simply a struggle that constitutes a conflict. It is the nature of the strug* gle. The test of a true conflict la its universality. In Othello, the question is as to whether Othello will or will not believe lago. The dramatic theory is concerned %vlth how each of our own trusting natures is In dan ger of being led Into suspicion. Major Dobree suggested that the play would not be thrilling without the death of Desdemona. Again it is universality —a dreadful error is responsible for the act. In Chekhov's The Chetry Orchard, there is no outward conflict. There is a struggle in the nature of the char acters. What interests us the way the struggles of these people reflect on our lives. It is an immaterial matter whether tiie orchard is cut down. We are Intensely interested In why the cutting down 1b a matter of such vital Importance to the characters. The struggle is the playwright’s technique. He must Iceep the interest of hlB audience. Tragedy is about what bap* pens to men; comedy is about what liumait beings do In society. The ex pectation, in a prize flght “he’s up, he’s down,” keep the Interest of the audience alert. Tragedy and comedy are about man himself; therefore, man Is intensely interested. As his second point, Major Dobree showed the fortuitous connection of Mens and conflict. If there is a strug gle, the ideas the dramatist uses to hold Interest are Important. The tlieme enters here. In the Greek drama, it was man and fate; in Eliza bethan drama, it was the new Influx of individuality; In the Restoration, it was life; In the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, the theme was “dead as a button” because it never dealt with real tikings. One struggle that matters to us all Is the mortal sti'uggle—the conilict between good and evil, and wo are all eager lor good to triumph. The type is decided usu ally by the time. European drama before the War dealt with social Btrug- gles. However, it may as well be ecouomic, philosophic, or religious. Life being complicated, cannot always be pictured directly. Hence there are perhaps two or three conflicts; tlie inner grows out of the outer. This Inner conflict—Hamlet was cited—13 what keeps our Interest. Plays before the war dealt with con jugal infidelity and the battle of tho sexes. Hei'e there was no real con flict—simply an oppositiou ol prin ciple. The characters were unpleasant egotists all trying to got the same thing. There was no conflict between good and evil. Thirdly, conflict plays the unifying role. The right sort of conflict gives the play unity of meaning, Chekhov’s plays are not strong because they lack the outer conflict. Strindberg Includ ed this outer struggle. In rauch modern drama there is interest on the surface with the struggle between man and machine. The vitalistlc and me* chaniBtlc theories provide the con flict. Again there are eternal strug gles as those which involve the church. With the enumeration of these facts, Major Dobree closed, having success fully substantiated “No conflict, no drama,” Professor Spelman To Give Two Organ Recitals Professor Leslie P. Spelman, head of the music department, will give two organ recitals in the near future. The first one will be given in New Bern, N. p., Sunday, October 27. On November 18, Mr, Spelman will appear in an organ recital before tho South Carolina MubIc Teachers* Asso ciation at Converse College, Sparta^* burg, S. C. AlVs Fair 9 m Cercie Francais Organized By Class in French 30 Students of Miss Day's section of French 20 have resurrected the pre- depression club. Le Cercie Francais, and are planning to learn more French and have fun at the same time, the tliird Tuesday night of each month. Every member of the club was pres ent at the flrst business meeting, Tuesday, October 8, and elected the following officers: Harriet Rose, pres ident; Jeanne Llghtfoot, vice presi dent; Anne Poteut, secretary; Lillian Poe, treasurer; and Lettie Hamlett, chairman of the program committee. All club work will be done In French, and programs for the meetings will vary from llttlo playlets to studies of French writers. The. club will also help back tlie new Alliance Fi'ancaise. Any outsider anxious for tiie club to succeed financially may help both themselves and the club by buying hot dogs on Tuesday and Friday nights. Convention of Public Scliooi Music Held atW. C. U. N. C. The convention of music teachers and supervisors in public schools and colleges of North Carolina was held at W. C. U. N. C. in Greensboro, Octo ber IS and 19. Three outstanding musicians were in charge of the con ferences, or clinics. Guy Maier, im minent pianist of Ann Arbor, Mich igan, had charge of the piano confer ence; Dr. J. Finley Williamson, head of the Westminster School and choir, had charge of the choral conference; and the band and orchestra division was under Prof. A. A. Harding, of the University of Illinois. One of the main events of the conference was a banquet Friday night at which all three men spoke. Tlie chief work of the meethig was the laying of plans for the spring contest and music fes tival of graded schools of the state. Mr. and Mrs. Spelman, Miss Mary Lee. and Miss Ragna Ottersen attended the convention as Meredith delegates. Fair - THEE - Well By KATE COVINGTON From the moment I got hard knots 111 the shoe laces of niy most com fortable oxfords streaking down to the departing bus to the time when I fell up three flights of Dorm. B stopy, I reveled in the Idea of )>ig pink feathered dolls, monkeys on walking sticks and cottou candy. I walked awfully haggard when it was over but not so bad as one young lady who pitched herself in the middle of her bed and slept all night with her hair in a turned-over bottle of flngernail polish! It must be that gregarlan instinct popping out in us that makes every body wend his way to tho fairgrounds and mingle with throngs of the dirti est, happiest, grimiest people from everywhere, and gleefully patronize gambling joints, and buy comical hats, and eat strange concoctions, and ride breatli-taklng devices . . . and love it! It's all In the game. I know, but as Dot, Susan, and I stopped to gaze at the man-eating cannibal executlug an Indian war dance, the crier called, “Ladees and gennllmen, in order that you, who've been s' kind os ter stand out byar so long may not feel yer tlmo wasted, for the next three minutes can buy yer tjckets for IB cents instead of a quarter! 15 cents for the,next three minutes! Step up, folks!”' We wan dered on to tho midget’s platform lu tlmo to hear: ”. . . until the phpno- gi'aph stops for ten cents! Folks! One dime! Start 'er up, Sami ^ We saw one proud,mother bodily grab her “Margret” from beside the cage of a sleepy looking animal with the threat that she'd never bring her again, while “Margret" peered still more curiously at him. The cotton candy gentleman sug gested that we buy his wares and use them for powder puffs. We stopped near the tin-type photographer, and a high schooler yelled my name. I looked up in surprise, only to be toned down a peg with: “Not you, pie-face!” Whereupon I burrotighed through the crowd. - It was almost five-thirty and having ridden everything but tho loop-the- loop, we decided now nothing to speak of (or not to speak of) we would buy a hambiirgor and cake and then catch the six- o'clock bus back to th' Glue Factory. So we ambled Into a nifty looking joint and purchased sustenance tliereof. Laying our ten cents on the counter, we prepared to walk out into the beauty of the late afternoon. Or sumpin’. We were mistaken. A ruby- lipped maiden quoth: “Twenty cents, please.” With sinking hearts we gave our all. Oh Muse, where wert thou? We emptied tlie sand in our shoes before we set forth on our little walk, which was well. It wasn't very far, really, and thp vision of those dishes we’d have had to launder in the ham burger Joint lent zest to our footsteps as we lumbered along. Wa arrived just in. time to |)Ito a point on the pen cil which h^, rolled under the table and sign In by, six. Ah. Fate.
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